THE BEST PLAYS OF 1939-40 And The Year Book of The Drama In America edited by Mantle, Burns. Published by Dodd, Mead and Company, 1940. 524 pp. hardcover containing 10 b/w illustrations of 10 different plays during the 1939-40 theatre season. The actors and actresses in these illustrations are: Lynn Fontanne, Montgomery Clift, Alfred Lunt, Dorothy Stickney, Howard Lindsay, Monty Woolley, Carol Goodner, Elliot Nugent, Robert Scott, Gertrude Lawrence, Donald Cook, Walter Gilbert, Dorothy Gish, Thomas Chalmers, Julie Haydon, Charles de Sheim, and Eddie Dowling. The author discusses the theatre seasons in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Southern California. The plays contained in this book are: There Shall Be No Night, Key Largo, The World We Make, Life With Father, The Man Wh Came To Dinner, The Male Animal, The Time of Your life, Skylark, Margin For Error, Morning's At Seven. Also included are the Federal Theatre activities and a statistical summary.